Department of Health and Social Care: Mobile Phones

(asked on 6th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of the mobile phone applications developed by his Department and its agencies in the last three years; and what the cost to the public purse was of developing of each of those applications.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 13th September 2018

The Department has not developed mobile phone applications in the last three years.

The executive agencies, Public Health England (PHE) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), have produced apps during this period.

PHE has produced the following apps to promote and support behaviour change:

- Change4Life Food Scanner;

- Change4Life Smart Recipes;

- One You Active 10;

- One You Couch to 5K;

- One You Easy Meals;

- One You Drink Free Days;

- One You Stoptober; and

- Smokefree.

Disclosure of the cost to the public purse for developing each of these applications would be likely to prejudice commercial interests.

The MHRA has produced one app, Yellowcard, which is funded through the European Commission’s Innovative Medicines initiative with no direct costs for MHRA.

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